The Housing Bubble

You’re outnumbered and out gunned.

Gotta love the GOP’s best and brightest star! TRUMP!!

Hopefully he gives his votes to Rand Paul when he bails out. Of course he does not want the job.

Of course he does not want the job.

I don’t know … the guy has a big ego.

But Trump does not want the responsibility and stress. His life is cushy now, why take a real job?

Maybe he sees it as a final hurrah. He’s got the chance to rise to real greatness, if he chooses to take it. Maybe that’s incentive enough.

Or maybe he’s just a charlaton like the rest of them.

My guess is that most Americans have never heard of Lindsay Graham. On the other hand, he must be fairly popular among Republicans in his state, which is an important primary state.

If you are a Jon Stewart fan, you know LG and laugh your a$$ off.

I don’t know much about him. I do know that he got elected to the Senate.

If Graham’s not on the Likud Party’s payroll, he should be. Along with McCain.

I wish a candidate that wasn’t a complete ignoramus had this quality.

John Kasich and Bernie Sanders aren’t totally full of BS. (For politicians)

John Kasich Enters 2016 Race, Hoping Centrist Appeal Sets Him Apart
New York Times‎ - 19 hours ago
John R. Kasich, a voluble and blunt-talking maverick who is hoping his upbeat vision for a …

Kasich is cool in that he’s a Christian that walks the walk. I don’t agree with a lot of his values, but he sticks to them, in the face of a party full of hypocrites. It’s admirable.

Hear, hear!

That strategy worked out poorly for Romney.

No, thanks for posting RJ.

The vegetables who fell for hope ‘n change should’ve asked themselves why George Soros and Goldman Sachs were bankrolling Obama’s campaign.

A: to see corp profits triple with a record high DOW and unemployment cut in half?

if you are an investor or a success, you like the last 6 yrs.

Uh…doesn’t Goldman Sachs bankroll the campaign of any candidate with a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected, “just in case”?

“if you are an investor or a success, you like the last 6 yrs.”

Could have said the same thing from 2003 to 2007. Or from 1995 to 2000.

This does not make me an Obama supporter or a Bush supporter or a Clinton supporter.

It is worse than stupid to attribute the market’s success to just ONE frigging human. It is retarded.

Retarded thinking and American politics go hand-in-hand.

Which they should. It was an uneconomic activity driven by speculative credit. It all goes back to the China construction boom, built on a giant pyramid of debt.

Luckily, we will get to study how it unwinds.

With collapsing demand, massive excess supply and falling oil prices, why wouldn’t it?

They see that $20 dollar oil coming, and know there’s no recovery for them for a decade. Time to shut ‘er down.

Luckily, we will get to study how it unwinds.

For about 20 years maybe.

In retrospect for certain Lola. This unprecedented distortion will come apart rapidly so hang on tight to your pink purse.

“And both U.S. production and drilling have immediately started to fall.”

Perhaps it is the massive glut of oil in storage on land and at sea, the collapse of Chinese industrial commodities demand, the prospect of Iran ramping back up to normal output levels, the strong and strengthening dollar, and no significant production cutback from OPEC nations which explains why your prediction for $80/bbl prices by December looks extremely doubtful?

Iran is hiding 51 million oil barrels at sea, Israeli startup says
Islamic republic is storing millions of barrels of Brent crude on supertankers in the Persian Gulf, maritime tracking firm claims.
By Nadan Feldman | Jul. 17, 2015 | 3:14 AM
By Gili Cohen and Amos Harel

As it reached its historic nuclear agreement with world powers earlier this week, Iran has been hiding millions of barrels of oil it never reported to the United States or in the world oil market, according to an Israeli company that has developed sophisticated maritime tracking technology.

Windward claims that Iran is currently storing 50 million barrels of crude on tankers in the Gulf, a much larger amount than estimates from Western sources. Bank of America has estimated Iran is holding 30 million barrels, while the U.S. news broadcaster CNBC put the number at 40 million.

“The Iranians are taking huge, 280-meter-long ships and filling them with oil, to sit at sea and wait. Because the sanctions allow for production of only three million barrels a day, they began storing the remainder,” Ami Daniel, Windward founder and cochairman, told TheMarker. “Oil tankers have been sitting in the Gulf for anywhere between three and six months, just waiting for orders. Before we launched the website, no one really knew how much oil they had stored up.”
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Markets | Wed Jul 22, 2015 5:39pm EDT
Oil falls, U.S. crude settles below $50 as inventories rise
NEW YORK | By Robert Gibbons
A pump jack is seen at sunrise near Bakersfield, California October 14, 2014.
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Oil prices fell and U.S. crude settled below $50 a barrel on Wednesday after government data showed crude inventories in the United States rose last week and as a stronger dollar and weaker global equities applied pressure.

U.S. crude oil stocks rose 2.5 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its weekly report, contrasting with expectations of a 2.3 million-barrel drawdown.

“The crude oil inventory rise was driven by a strong rebound in crude oil imports, which neared 8 million barrels per day,” said John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital LLC in New York.

Crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia rose to 1.44 million barrels per day (bpd), up from 1.32 million the previous week, according to EIA data.

Equity markets pulled lower by a weak revenue forecast at Apple Inc and the stronger dollar also pressured oil.

A stronger greenback makes dollar-denominated oil more expensive for consumers using other currencies.

U.S. September crude CLc1 fell $1.67, or 3.28 percent, to settle at $49.19 a barrel, first settlement below $50 since April. The $49.04 low hit in post-settlement trading was a September contract low.

U.S. crude dropped below $50 on Monday for the first time since April and its 14-day Relative Strength Index is below 28. …

Crude stocks rose 813,000 barrels at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery hub, helping widen the spread between U.S. and Brent crude to near $7 a barrel.

Brent September crude LCOc1 fell 91 cents to settle at $56.13.

“The fact that Cushing contributed almost one third of the increase added to today’s downside response,” Jim Ritterbusch, president at Ritterbusch & Associates, said in a note.
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Markets Commodities Oil Markets
U.S. Oil Prices Fall Below $50 a Barrel
Government reports increase in weekly oil stockpiles
By Nicole Friedman
Updated July 22, 2015 3:37 p.m. ET

U.S. oil prices settled below $50 a barrel Wednesday for the first time in more than three months after weekly data showed an unexpected increase in U.S. crude-oil supplies.

Light, sweet crude for September delivery settled down $1.67, or 3.3%, at $49.19 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest settlement since April 2. Brent, the global benchmark, fell 91 cents, or 1.6%, to $56.13 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe.

U.S. oil prices have slid 17% this month on renewed concerns that the global glut of oil is continuing to outweigh demand. Despite expectations earlier in the year that drilling cutbacks by companies would quickly lead to a decline in U.S. oil production, the country’s output has held relatively steady, and oil production has risen in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and elsewhere.

Some market watchers say $50 a barrel is a key psychological level that could encourage traders who had bet on higher prices to close out those positions, pushing the market even lower.

U.S. commercial crude-oil stockpiles increased by 2.5 million barrels to 463.9 million barrels, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Wednesday. Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal called for stocks to fall by 1.6 million barrels on the week.

Crude-oil supplies typically fall at this time of year as refineries run at high rates to process crude oil into gasoline and other fuels. Refining capacity utilization rose in the week to 95.5% of capacity, the highest level since 2005. Even so, crude supplies rose as imports increased and production held near multi-decade highs.

“The most surprising thing is the build in crude-oil inventory,” said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates in Houston. “This has got to be concerning for the market, as in six weeks we’re going to start with refinery maintenance, reducing demand for crude oil.”
…

ft dot com > World > MiddleEast&NorthAfrica >
Iran
July 20, 2015 4:11 pm
Increased Iran oil output puts other exporters under pressure
Simeon Kerr in Dubai
Facilities at phases 2-3 of the South Pars gas field, owned jointly by Iran and Qatar, are illuminated at night in Assaluyeh on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast May 27, 2006. Picture taken on May 27, 2006.
REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

The lifting of sanctions against Iran is likely to prompt an increase in the Islamic Republic’s oil output and heap pressure on the finances of other hydrocarbons exporters.

Estimates of Iranian output rising by as much as 1m barrels a day within one to two years will “inevitably depress prices”, Moody’s rating agency said in a report, undermining the creditworthiness of exporters with weak financial buffers, such as Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Bahrain and Oman.

The deal, which will also allow Iran to regain access to as much as $150bn in frozen assets and the global financial system, could increase output to 4m b/d by 2017, Moody’s said, citing the Institute of International Finance.

Iran could also quickly release 30m barrels from floating storage into global markets, depressing prices if there is no correspondent increase in demand.

The expected increase in Iranian production could “temper” the rating agency’s $5 a barrel price increase previously forecast for 2016. Oil-dependent producers are already reeling under the pressure of lower energy prices.

Moody’s said it will take Iran time to make up for past under-investment, citing Iranian officials who estimate the industry needs $230bn in investment to reverse five years of weak oil production, falling from 2.5m b/d in 2011 to 1.1m b/d in 2014.

Iraq and Saudi Arabia are increasing output as they seek to offset lower oil prices.

Riyadh, moreover, has “ample fiscal buffers” with foreign exchange reserves equivalent to about 100 per cent of gross domestic product, Moody’s said.

Saudi Arabia has begun a programme of domestic borrowing, issuing local bonds worth $4bn with expectations of more to come as the kingdom drains fiscal reserves of $65bn to maintain public spending.

However, Moody’s said that other Gulf producers, such as Bahrain and Oman, have fiscal and external positions that “would recover more slowly or deteriorate more sharply than otherwise with weaker oil prices”.
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Markets | Mon Jul 20, 2015 3:42pm EDT
Oil prices dips below $50 on ample supply, strong dollar
NEW YORK | By Robert Gibbons

Oil futures fell on Monday and U.S. crude slipped below $50 a barrel intraday as ample supply, the prospect of more Iranian crude for export and a strengthening dollar combined to pressure prices.
…

Bank says crude downturn could get worse than 1986 if OPEC keeps pumping more oil

The current downturn in the global oil industry may prove to be more severe than in 1986, when business endured the deepest slump in 45 years, as OPEC keeps markets oversupplied, according to Morgan Stanley.

Increased production from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is more than compensating for slowing growth in U.S. shale oil, the bank said in a report dated Tuesday. OPEC has boosted output by 1.5 million barrels a day since February, an amount roughly equal to a year’s increase in world demand, it said. Still, Morgan Stanley expects the industry to recover before the crisis reaches the extent of the 1980s.

“The entire current oversupply can be attributed to OPEC supply growth over the past four months,” analysts including Martijn Rats and Haythem Rashed said in the report. “On current trajectory, this downturn could be worse than 1986.”

Oil producers have cut $130 billion US in investment and 70,000 workers in response to lower prices, Morgan Stanley estimates. Crude has tumbled as OPEC maintains elevated output to pressure rival producers including shale drillers in North America. Brent crude futures traded near $56 a barrel in London on Wednesday, down 47 per cent from a year ago.
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Wait… the guy that wants to lock up Muslim whackos wants to lock up the right wing loons that tremble at the thought of aforementioned whackos?

Sounds like a great reality show.

Wesley Clark wants to lock up anyone who is sad. You have to hide your feelings and fly the USSA flag and you will be okay.

I’ve Joshua Tree’d Dan, and only occasionally look at one of his posts when I seen an interesting answer to it.

I’ve Joshua Tree’d Dan

I’ll take this as a milestone in the success of the extension — it’s now been used as a verb!

Definitely a milestone and I think of the term being more or less synonymous with “impale”…
Anyway, thanks very much for the extension, makes reading the comments bearable and MUCH faster.

You hang on his every word. And mine too.

Who you kidding?

Anyway, thanks very much for the extension, makes reading the comments bearable and MUCH faster.

Ditto!

Definitely a milestone to be able to Joshua Tree Chinese communist propagandists!

But how did they compute posted index values at the height of the market shutdown? Was it somewhat akin to computing Chinese GDP growth rates?

Are you trying to suggest all is well again and back to normal in China’s state-run asset markets?

BloombergBusiness
A Simple China Trading Rule to Trounce the State-Run Market
by Kyoungwha Kim
July 22, 2015 — 11:45 AM PDT
Updated on July 22, 2015 — 6:55 PM PDT

Buy when the stock market opens. Sell at the close. Repeat.

As far as trading strategies go, that’s about as simple as it gets. Turns out it’s also been a great way to make money in China, thanks to what analysts say is a pattern of afternoon equity purchases by state-backed funds.

When applied to the Shanghai Composite Index, the trading rule generated a 23 percent return since July 8, compared with 8 percent for a buy-and-hold approach. Use it on PetroChina Co., an obvious target of state support given the stock’s heavy weighting in benchmark indexes, and the difference is even starker: 43 percent versus 0.5 percent.

Late-day rallies are the latest quirk to emerge from an equity market where government intervention — from price ceilings on initial public offerings to bans on stake sales by major shareholders — has increased to unprecedented levels after a $4 trillion selloff.

Policy makers are acting to prop up share prices toward the close because “they want to show people that the market has stabilized,” said Jimmy Zuo, a Shenzhen-based trader at Guosen Securities Co.
…

Shouldn’t investors in the Chinese stock market rightfully be concerned about liquidity, given the government’s proven willingness to shut down trade in stocks if market prices fail to match their preferences?

Sounds just like 7% China GDP growth calculation!

That was because a lot of children died before the age of 5.

and a lot of old people did not see 60

That was because a lot of children died before the age of 5.

It was not that (though kids did drop dead like flies back then). From what I have read, few made it past 40 in the 19th century. If you did, you were either privileged (no hard labor or unsanitary conditions) or were blessed with a great set of genes.

That may be true as well. But if you consider the arithmetic, the death of a even a small portion of 2 year-olds has a big effect on the average life span.

Nope. This graph lets you see life expectancy while correcting for infant mortality. For example, in ~1875, if you made it past age 5, your average life expectancy was 58.

Women died shortly before men due to death in childbirth, but women surpass men after age 40, after they got done having kids.

http://pages.uoregon.edu/maphist/english/US/US39-01.html

thanks Oxide. Very interesting.

…which magically can be made from flowing water.

Someone still has to run and maintain the power plants.

Isn’t a favorite meme here the “when the lights go out”; which is supposed the signal TEOTWAWKI?

Speaking of which, the sequel to ONE SECOND AFTER, called ONE YEAR AFTER, is coming out in September. It’s an excellent fictious depiction of what an EMP event would do to us.

If GDP was actually growing at 7%, then why would so much money need to be smuggled out of the country? Maybe because the people in power know that number is as phony as China’s stock markets.

Exactly, capital would be pouring in and not fleeing, often illegally. The ChiComs know that there is a SHTF moment down the road, hence why anyone with money is trying to get into a safe haven.

You and the article are assuming that the money is being smuggled out as opposed to a decision to create a new silk road and fund the acquisition of mines throughout the world

From China Daily:

The first half-year economic data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last Wednesday showed that the economy is in a reasonable range and on a steady recovery trend. Both of the first two quarters maintained a GDP growth rate of 7 percent year-on-year, which was better than expected.

Second-quarter momentum mainly came from the tertiary industry whose share in the total industrial sector grew to 8.4 percent from 7.95 percent in the first quarter, partly owing to the rebound in the real estate and financial markets.

Based on the contribution to cumulative year-on-year GDP growth, the secondary industry is still quite important in China’s economy, taking 37.91 percent on average - from first quarter in 2013 (41.4 percent) to second quarter this year (33.6 percent).

Meanwhile, the financial industry contributed a lot in the first and second quarter of this year. But things will be different in the second half of 2015, as the stock market has fallen sharply since June 15 with the ensuing IPO suspension by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

Among provinces that have released regional GDP growth data, 20 registered a better result in the first half-year than the first quarter, notably in western regions such as Sichuan and Xinjiang.

The amazing GDP growth of Xinjiang and Hainan, with a rate higher than the national average of 7 percent, may indicate China’s Silk Road Economic Belt strategy is actually starting to pay off by stimulating the country’s economic growth.

China is bleeding off it’s reserves, and nearly $1 Tr a year is fleeing the country.

Is investing in the silk road countries fleeing when it is government policy?

‘Apple’s disappointing quarter may be confirmation that China’s economy is not only slowing, but slowing more dramatically than markets expect.’

‘Here’s Cowen: “While [management] commentary sought to re-assure, iPhone units were light even adjusting for channel inventory. Normally, this would not concern us but evidence of a widespread demand reset from China is mounting (auto [sales], [United Technologies], [Fairchild Semiconductor], [Linear Technology] to name a few from what we watch). (These are, according to Cowen, economic data or US corporate earnings that have disappointed with China cited a key negative impact.)”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-most-negative-thing-youll-122545641.html

China’s government has pushed low wage manufacturing, real estate, industrial overcapacity, and the stock market, all to keep up the illusion that growth wasn’t based on a weakened currency and the biggest debt bubble in human history. Now it keeps the masses happy by training them to repeat phrases like service economy and silk road initiative. Unfortunately for the Chinese government, reality can only be kept at bay for so long.

Another anecdote regarding China’s emerging middle class.

When our Beijing colleagues came to visit, one of them had an iPhone 6, which was gift from her husband.

The rest of the Beijing contingent thought that was a REALLY BIG DEAL, and they later told me that only “rich people” could afford an iPhone 6. The rest of them had no name, Chinese brand android phones.

When I told them that most American middle class teenage girls have iPhones they were astounded.

“The rest of them had no name, Chinese brand android phones.”

The shoemaker’s kids are barefoot.

God doesn’t even need the point of a sword to collet his 100% tax.

People were expected to give of their own free will, not coerced into involuntary “charity.”

If that actually happened, we wouldn’t have any poor. Instead we have “christians” driving to huge air conditioned megachurches in their SUVs, complaining about how somebody makes them take care of the poor.

Also, way to go by only posting part of the verse. If I were you, I’d stay away from Peter. Based on Colorado’s post, people like you who try to pull one over on God don’t end up well.

sounds like Jesus was for big government socialism.

‘Now, when you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small. But he is going to ask you what you did for the poor. You better have a good answer.” Gov. John Kasich (R) 2013

Kasich makes faith argument for Medicaid

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/06/18/kasich-will-never-give-up-fight-to-expand-medicaid.html

Invoking a heavenly imperative, Gov. John Kasich said yesterday he will never give up the fight to expand Medicaid, even as a legislative leader said it is unlikely to happen this summer.

Kasich told reporters he won’t rest until the legislature passes his plan to expand Medicaid coverage to 275,000 more poor Ohioans.

“I’m not going to give this up. I will not. I don’t care how long it takes. Hopefully, it will be sooner rather than longer.”

Always looking for something free eh Lola?

Just how empty are your pockets?

It doesn’t say voluntary or joyful. It says if you hold out on the community, God will strike you dead.

It isn’t just the illegals doing the killing.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/unc-student-eve-carson-begged-captors-to-pray-with-her-before-they-killed-her-says-murder-trial-witness/

the US is perceived as being the top threat to world peace.

The foreigners I know that criticize the USA note warmongering, aggression, racism and greed as our most serious issues.

I just tell them to STFU or I’ll kick their brown A$$’s. (If they’re brown.)

‘America has become utterly corrupt and has lost its collective soul’

I can’t believe that. But there is something wrong when a young man walks into a church and shoots people because of the color of their skin. And when a president brags that he is good at killing people.

We better wise up, because these powerful people are watching us. They pay attention to what we will tolerate or encourage. One of the scariest things I ever heard was this:

‘The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore.” He continued “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Rove

That told me there are people in power who will contemplate anything. When we hear someone say we have a duty and obligation to put people in internment camps, we should remember we have already done this before. And how far is it to say we should, no must, perform the final solution?

At the very end of the cold war, I saw a speech by a former KGB guy who had escaped the Soviet Union. He told us about various ways they had worked on our public opinion. The main goal was to demoralize us. The way to resist this he said, was to stay moral.

He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore.” He continued “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Like I said, corrupt and soulless.

Like I said, corrupt and soulless.

95% of the electorate (well, of the 30% who actually turned out to vote) gave their explicit sanction to crony capitalism, aka corruption, by voting for Obama, McCain, and Romney. If we have corruption in high places, it’s because ‘Muricans don’t have any problem with corruption, just like the Mexican populace.

The 5% who voted for Ron Paul, and for honest governance, are leavening in the body politic, but cannot prevail against an overwhelming mass of brain-damaged, amoral sheep.

Corrupt and soulless, indeed. Go look in the mirror if you want to see who’s to blame.

Try the public library. Ours considered banning guns,

“No Smoking”
“Silencers Please”

If you don’t arrive there packing heat, you certainly will as you leave . . .

You never know when a muslim terrorist will run out of the restroom and threaten your Gorditos. Can’t be too safe.

How about the other kinds of people - convicted violent criminals and those found to be to be severely mentally ill in court? Should anything to be done to prevent such people from having guns? Or should we take the view that the constitution says nothing about that, that everyone has the right to guns?

My personal view? nothing should be done to prevent them. If someone has committed a crime and society is concerned they’re dangerous, they should be in jail/separated from society. But once you’ve done your time, all rights should be restored.

As far as the mentally ill, if one is found legally mentally incompetent (via the court system), then I reckon it’s reasonable to restrict gun ownership among other activities. However, there needs to be a method to challenge the ruling/be re-declared competent should circumstances change.

The constitution/bill of rights exist to specifically limit encroachment on certain rights. It’s not a list of suggestions that would be nice to give to specific people dependent upon whether those in ‘power’ are feeling generous…

If you consider some of the mass murderers - the guy who shot up the movie theater in Colorado, the guy at the school in Connecticut, the guy in the church in SC, the Chattanooga killings - they’re generally fairly young guys. Maybe the solution is to make 30 the minimum age for gun ownership.

Almost all of them were on SSRIs. Maybe that should be a no-go for possession of a firearm.

Yep - the NRA is at fault.

If he purchased his weapons at a gun show, skirting any background checks in the process, then yes, the NRA bears some of the blame.

…a confederate flag flying nearby…..And that southern culture..truly is a mental disease.

Nice culture dude. Be proud.

Ku Klux Klan KKK Confederate Flag Fight Rally VIDEO Racist Slurs KKK rally South Carolina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ60geh1Gyw

Import millions of muslims and then take away my freedoms to “protect me” from the hostile culture you just imported.

But they vote democrat so all is good.

Liberalism is a mental disease.

Liberalism truly is a mental disease.

You’re just trying to fire up the Repub crazies. (It’s not too hard to do.)

Conservatism as a Mental Illness
Republican pols have recently exhibited 10 telltale signs of mental illness

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-entertainment/201206/conservatism-mental-illness

In Creationism as a Mental Illness, Robert Rowland Smith argues that creationists exhibit several signs of mental illness including denial, psychosis, and inability to grasp irony.

The specter of mental illness does indeed loom large over creationists, but they are not alone. Signs of psychopathology can also be seen among their political bedfellows, conservative politicians, especially when you consider a wide range of illness indicators.

In his award-winning 2005 book, Dr. James Whitney Hicks discusses 50 signs of mental illness (link is external) including denial, delusion, hallucination, disordered thinking, anger, anti-social behavior, sexual preoccupation, grandiosity, general oddness, and paranoia. Now I’m no clinician, but in my (admittedly biased brown) eyes it seems that prominent Republicans have evidenced each of these ten telltale signs of mental illness over the past year:

…”Republican Syndrome” should be added to the DSM-V (link is external) so that crazy conservative pols can receive the mental health treatment they need. I bet “Obamacare” would even cover it.

Lol@Lola.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVK0yZAhBKM

A thorny problem indeed.

cross check on CL, if you need to. $1600 is about right for a SFR in the good school area of Reno.

“Trust, but verify ” said the GOP’s favorite RINO.

And once your losses to depreciation are included, the rent becomes a fraction of the cost of buying the shack.

HonestMath my friend. Try it.

Well ahem, that is Baltimore. I lived there.

Lots of places have decreased crime rates since the 1990s. I’m biased toward “pro life” but the fact is that the Roe V. Wade kept unwanted children from being born. That is the “Freakonomics” conclusion as to why the crime rate has decreased over the years.